TheKiteMag - Guides Destination Guide Autumn 2018 | Page 48

PROFILE: EASYRIDERS CAN YOU SUMMARIZE WHAT YOU DO? We are a kitesurf and SUP center in the UK. We have a beautiful teaching area in a harbor giving perfect flat water for kiting at all levels and amazing SUP tours. We teach all levels from beginner to expert and instructor training, we do lots of foiling too. We do a bunch of clinics each year to teach and coach kitesurfing and SUP worldwide. Our courses are geared towards all levels: beginner, intermediate, expert and instructor levels. WHERE ARE YOU BASED AND WHEN WERE YOU ESTABLISHED? We have been going since 2004 and we are based at Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset. We have taught on every continent and run more coaching holidays than any other UK business. This year is our fourteenth consecutive year to Brazil. We have added a couple of foiling clinics this year which are fab. WHERE ARE MOST OF YOUR CLIENTS FROM? UK and Europe, USA and Canada. HOW LONG HAVE YOU AND YOUR TEAM BEEN KITING? As a team we have over 100 years experience! Head honcho Andy Gratwick has been kiting since 1998. WHAT ARE YOU DOING THAT MAKES YOU SPECIAL COMPARED TO OTHER KITING BUSINESSES? Andy has worked within kitesurfing for Destination Guide 20 years. He went on the first instructor course, then set up the first school in Poole. We were first to run clinics and the first to all our destinations where we have great setups and know the locations like a second home. We have more experience than anyone else, we care about all our clients who are all our friends, and we love what we do, so that makes it pretty easy! CAN YOU TALK US THROUGH EITHER YOUR MOST RECENT TRIP? We were on our Caribbean program, where we had a catamaran around the Grenadines for a week with the most insane downwinders and easily the best foiling spot I have ever found. We then had two wave clinics in Barbados which had great conditions with only one windless day in a month! WHAT DO YOU HAVE LINED UP FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS? Peru in June to the longest left on the planet. Greece foiling in July… A perfect get- to-grips-with-it clinic. Canaries in September for some fun kite and SUP waves. Brazil for November for some guaranteed winds… Then back to the Caribbean early 2019. WHY SHOULD OUR READERS CHOOSE TO SPEND THEIR HARD EARNED MONEY WITH YOU?! We’re the best at what we do… We love doing it… And all our customers love coming back!